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The Camps

  • KINKASEKI #1 (Chinguashi)
  • TAICHU #2 (Taichung)
  • HEITO #3 (PingTung)
  • SHIRAKAWA #4 (Chiayi)
  • TAIHOKU #5 MOSAK (Taipei)
  • TAIHOKU #6 (Taipei)
  • KARENKO (Hualien)
  • TAMAZATO (YuLi)
  • KUKUTSU (Taipei)
  • OKA (Taipei)
  • TOROKU - (Touliu)
  • INRIN - (Yuanlin)
  • INRIN TEMPORARY (Yuanlin)
  • TAKAO (Kaohsiung)
  • CHURON (Taipei)
  • TAIHOKU Prison (Taipei)

Summary of POW Camps and Related Sites on Formosa (Taiwan) with Satellite Images:

Google Earth Satellite Images of former Taiwan POW Camps and Related Sites:

If you would like to view satellite images of the current locations of the former Taiwan POW Camps and other related sites, copy the co-ordinates listed below in the “Google Earth Co-ordinates” column for the camp or site required into the “search” box at the top left hand corner of Google Earth.

Note:   Red type for co-ordinates indicates the general area in which the POW Camp was located.  Exact co-ordinates for those POW camps will be provided when the information is available.


POW Sites

Google Earth Co-ordinates

Date Opened

Date Closed

Heito Camp

22° 39' 26.3"N 120° 32' 54.3"E

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08/12/1942 03/15/1945

POWs slaved to clear rocks and stones from river bed to plant sugar cane, also worked in sugar factory – camp bombed by USN February 1945.

Karenko Camp

24° 01' 26.8"N 121° 36' 23.9"E

08/17/1942 06/25/1943

Camp for senior officers and aides – mostly engaged in farming.

Takao Camp

22° 35' 35.8"N 120° 18' 05.2"E

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09/07/1942 02/15/1945

Transit camp near Takao Harbor, men did stevedoring work.

Taichu Camp

24° 01' 06.8"N 120° 40' 53.6"E

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09/27/1942 07/01/1944

POWs slaved here excavating a flood diversion channel in the nearby river. Camp flooded in June 1944, POWs moved to Heito and other camps.

Taihoku Camp #6

25° 05' 04.0"N 121° 32' 35.2"E

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11/14/1942 09/06/1945

POWs slaved building a memorial park and man-made lake for Japs. They were also engaged in farming, and some worked in the railway repair shops.

Kinkaseki Camp

25° 06' 38.6"N 121° 51' 30.4"E

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11/14/1942 05/16/1945

POWs slaved in the nearby copper mine – moved to Kukutsu 05/45.

Tamazato Camp

23° 20' 27.6"N 121° 18' 41.2"E

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04/02/1943 06/24/1943

Temporary camp for senior officers and aides to prepare for Red Cross visit.

Shirakawa Camp

23° 23' 51.0"N 120° 26' 29.5"E

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06/06/1943 08/26/1945

Senior officers’ camp after Karenko closed – mostly engaged in farming. Most officers moved to Manchuria in October 1944. After that it became more or less a hospital camp until the end of the war.

Taihoku Camp # 5 - Mosak

24° 59' 20.5"N 121° 33' 27.6"E

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06/24/1943 12/06/1944

Camp for 32 most senior officers and governors and aides – little work.

Inrin Camp

23° 56' 53.5"N 120° 36' 05.7"E

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07/01/1944 03/05/1945

Initially POWs came from Taichu Camp after it was flooded – little work.

Inrin Temporary Camp

23° 56' 39.5"N 120° 36' 08.1"E

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11/09/1944 01/15/1945

Temporary rest camp for men from hellship Hokusen Maru – little work.

Toroku Camp

23° 40' 27.0"N 120° 32' 16.0"E

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11/09/1944 04/11/1945

Temporary rest camp for men from hellship Hokusen Maru and later housed other POWs from Taichu and Inrin Camps – little work, but some men worked at the nearby sugar mill.

Kukutsu Camp

24° 54' 43.3"N 121° 30' 23.4"E

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05/16/1945 08/24/1945

Basically an extermination camp for the remaining Kinkaseki POWs – POWs were starved and beaten.

Oka Camp

25° 08' 13.5"N 121° 35' 15.3"E

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06/12/1945 08/21/1945

Basically an extermination camp prepared to kill all POWs in Taihoku 6.

Churon Camp

25° 03' 52.4"N 121° 33' 44.8"E

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08/25/1945 09/06/1945

Temporary holding camp for POWs from Kinkaseki/Kukutsu awaiting evacuation by allied forces.

Taihoku Prison

25° 01' 56.3"N 121° 31' 31.5"E

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It was here that all of the American Air Force and Navy fighter pilots and bomber aircrews who were shot down or crashed over Taiwan were imprisoned, interrogated and in some cases, executed.


Other Sites on Formosa (Taiwan):

Keelung Harbor (POW ships dock) 25° 08' 08.8"N 121° 44' 32.5"E
Takao Harbor (Entrance) 22° 37' 00.1"N 120° 15' 56.0"E
Takao Hospital 22° 37' 52.6"N 120° 16' 46.0"E
Taiwan Hellships Memorial 22° 35' 26.6"N 120° 16' 56.9"E

 

 
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